Kyran Pittman

Kyran Pittman was working toward respectability as a poet when she started screwing around with blogs and gave birth to her bastard love child, Notes to Self.

Notes is a cherished personal space in the midst of domestic life. It's a blank piece of typing paper in an old Underwood. It's a corkboard covered with family photos and milestones. It's a set of field notes on motherhood, marriage, and America, written by an expatriate Newfoundlander who wakes up every day wondering how she came to live in any of those mad realms.

It can be whatever it makes up its mind to be. She spoils it that way.

In return, Notes has launched Kyran's career as a freelance essayist, with publication credits in Good Housekeeping magazine and the Toronto Globe and Mail. It also provides her with a merry way to make lips curl in certain literary circles.

Kyran blogs shamelessly for Flawed But Authentic, AOL's WalletPop, and is the Mind, Body, Spirit Editor of Kirtsy. She is working on a first collection of essays, and is writing a coming-of-age memoir, So Far For Beauty.